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up a text transcript of the> above portion of the DragonCon track and post it to the list,
you can earn a> brownie point. And... a hint. And... a shrubbery!
And maybe even a beer.> :)

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(translation attempted through stuttering, and other misc. backgroundnoises/talking)

Currently we are not allowed to go over 128 in encryption codes.
Isthere any possability that fractal encryption codes will come intobeing?

The 128 bit encryption is actually used for export. You cannot transmit128 bit encryption outside of the US. New PGP, er, PG rather..
GNUPG,the main archives are kept outside US jurisdiction for that, and
it'sopen source, and it doesn't fall under that catagory. Another type
ofencryption that completely bypasses that, one word for you:Steganography. This is an encryption that doesn't encrypt data
in aconventional sense, but rather hides it in another data stream.
It'slike embedding data into a JPEG image. You could actually put a
work..the Library of Congress, in a picture! It currently works with
GIF,BMPs, PNGs, WAV files.. it doesn't work with JPEGs or MPEGs because
itcompresses the data.. and you'll lose some of the data. The way
it'sdifferent from a watermark ..If you dont know where the data wassecreted in the file, you can't find it. If you're really interested
inthis, there's a book called "Dissappearing Cryptography" that talks
allabout it, and you can do a word search on "Steganography" online,
andget all sorts of free programs. Steganography like Stegasaurus.
We'lltalk more about that in the Hacking 201 panel, and there may even
besomething related to that with the Phreaknic v3.0 puzzle, ya never
know.